Wednesday, August 28, 2013

A LIGHT AT THE END OF THIS TWILIGHT TUNNEL ?.............

I met this morning at 10 am with Reverend Father Blaise Berg, the Episcopal Vicar For Clergy to discuss ending my involuntary exile of nearly a year and a half and return to full time ministry with my imminent an exit from Mercy McMahon.  It was the at long last a productive meeting that can potentially resolve the impasse of indifference concerning the continuation of my ordained priestly ministry  to and for, the Sacramento Diocese for the 17.5 months totaling to date- more than 75 Sundays and well over 500 days I have been relegated to the sidelines, except for limited, occasional opportunities to minister and preside and preach at public Mass and administer Sacraments.  I express appreciation to Dr. Randy Martin M.D.. of Sutter Roseville Medical Center whose consistent verbal advocacy for the resumption of my priestly since my placement at MMT he put into a strong letter of support for me and my ministry which he sent to Bishop Soto earlier this month.  His letter along with that of neurologist Dr. Mahmood, come simultaneously with renewed and vehement support for ending what an increasing number of close friends and former parishioners are referring to as my being, "warehoused" inappropriately and unnecessarily in a senior citizens community were the age of the residents is 75-100 !  I am ready, able, and oh so willing, to carry out a combination of parish, diocesan, and community, ministries that will serve the People of God in the Church of Sacramento, as I have being a native born, locally grown, priestly vocation and will r,emain loyally devoted to carry out for years to come , going forward.............Fr.  Troy

Thursday, August 15, 2013

REACHING 100,000 BLOG POST READINGS.............

Nearly four and a half years after starting this blog, it has today surpassed 100,000 reads of the 2,819 blog columns I have written to date.  My gratitude to those of you who are counted among the 100,000 readings of my blog as of since its beginning on April 19, 2009; of, Insights Into Life And Faith  and a gracious welcome to those of you joining them and who will come to, " Insighhts Into Life And Faith By Father Troy David Powers".............tdp

Saturday, August 10, 2013

NUPTIAL JUBILEE WISHES AND BLESSINGS FOR A "GOLDEN" COUPLE.............

Fifty years ago today at thus very 10 a.m. hour, Roger Geach and Karin were joined in the Sacrament of Marriage by Reverend Father Hugh McTague, in St. Robert's Church on Irvin Way n South Sacramento.  Their wedding took place on Saturday  August 10, 1963; at 10 a.m.  It was in same St. Robert's Church the following year that my own parents Marriage was sacramentalized by Father McTague.  Thus nearly a half century ago we were fellow parishioners.  For the past three and and  a half decades I have been greatly blessed with their magnanimous friendship, fellowship, fidelity, generosity, and mutual discipleship.  Privileged to catechize and officiate at their children's marriage, to baptize their grandchildren and preside at the funeral of Karin's mother.  I extend my fondest affection, heartfelt prayers, and perpetual gratitude, on this their Golden Jubilee Wedding Anniversary.  May God's most Abundant Graces and Choicest Blessings be with Karin and Roger today and ffor mamy more wedding anniversaries to come.  Love + Prayers,   Fr.  Troy

Friday, August 9, 2013

A SAINT'S DAY THAT RECALLS AN ALTERNATIVE CHOICE.............

Being the thoughtful, analytical, pondering, person I have always prided myself on being, yesterday I was caused by the liturgical feast day to think about, recall, and contemplate, the past and present of my life's vocation.  Deciding to become a priest versus pursuing a career in politics, government, public service, or teaching history and the social sciences, was a determination of several years of prayer and meditation.  From the age of reason I was always strongly inclined if I followed the path to ordination to become a diocesan priest; thanks in very great measure to the example and experience I had of the pastors of my youth, Msgr/ Edward J. Kavanagh, and Msgr. Hugh McTague, as well as the other parish priests; and then the exemplary episcopal ministry and servant leadership of Bishop Francis Anthony Quinn. Today, the sanctoral feast day of St. Dominic. a priest who founded a religious order known as the Order of Preachers. the O.P., popularly known ass the Dominicans, was one of the few priestly orders I considered entering given my lifelong skills and abilities for public speaking, thus preaching as an integral component of the life and ministry of an of a Catholic-Christian Priest.  Seventeen months on the sidelines and having publicly preached only twice in that period of time, my reflection on the life and priestly ministry of St. Dominic and thhe Order of Preachers causes me to question in the wake of my current status, how much more as a disabled but capable priest in good standing I would presently be preaching, presiding, celebrating, and  ministering, publicly, if I had been ordained an O.P. ?  A wheelchair and my health condition would seem to have little if any adverse affect on my ability and effectiveness  to preach and preside as  a duly ordained priestly with more than a quarter of a  century of faithful service rendered to my native Sacramento Diocese.............tdp

Thursday, August 8, 2013

MY APPOINTMENT TODAY WITH DR. MARTIN.............

I had a follow-up appointment  with Dr. Randy Martin  at Sutter Roseville this morning and he concurs with Dr. Mahmood. the neurologist; that I am stabilizing and improving after my mild stroke incident on May 31st.  As he has passionately advocated on my behalf the past 17 months, Dr. Martin agrees there is good reason to return me to parish and or community  ministry.   I can only hope and pray to  terminate this over extensive involuntary exile in what for me is  the geriatric twilight zone of Mercy McMahon Terrace, where I have been inappropriately relegated the past year and a half.  Translating the doctors professional prognosis into productive and pro-active diocesan action  diocesan action is the greater challenge.  In coming weeks I will move out and proceed to resume my priestly ministry, exercising all available options if I must, to preserve the servant leadership in the Sacramento Diocese I was ordained a priest to carry out from being further squandered and marginalized.............tdp

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